The hot water drill team are making excellent progress at KIS3. They’ve melted snow to fill the two flubbers that will supply water to the boilers to melt the pilot hole and create a well.
Each flubber tank holds 12,000 litres of water – that’s a lot of snow to melt. Once the process was underway with ‘seed water’ created in a heated tank, the team then used a Dingo (compact utility machine) to transport the snow into the first flubber. The next day they began transferring this water into the second flubber, while continuing to top up the first with fresh snow.
Meanwhile, inside the drill tent a 3 m pit has been dug out of the ice, and the cellar has been installed.
